The Hindu 12.05.2010
No Pilloor water supply today
Special Correspondent
| Work taken up to plug leaks in the main line at Keeranatham near the city |
Photo: K.Ananthan 
Cooling off: A leak in the Pilloor water scheme mainline forms a pool at Keeranatham near the city on Tuesday. -
COIMBATORE: The supply of drinking water under the Pilloor scheme will be stopped for the entire day on Wednesday (May 12) to plug leaks in the main line at Keeranatham near the city.
The leaks were detected on Tuesday. A major one among these led to the wastage of one million litres a day, out of the total 64 million litres supplied to the city and another 61 million litres to more than 500 town panchayats and village panchayats north and east of the city.
The leak formed a pool of water at Keeranatham, clearly pointing at the quantum of wastage.
Mayor R. Venkatachalam, Deputy Mayor N. Karthik, Coimbatore Corporation's Assistant Engineer in charge of Pilloor supply K. Karuppusamy and Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board officials visited the spot on Tuesday to assess the damage and plan repairs.
The Mayor and Deputy Mayor said after the inspection that the supply would be stopped on Wednesday to carry out repairs to the line. The supply would be restored in the evening. Mr. Karthik said that because of this the supply schedule in the city and other areas would be deferred by a day.
Repairs
“We have to carry out the repairs to prevent the problem from turning worse,” Mr. Venkatachalam said.
The water board said in a press release that normal supply would resume on Thursday morning.
The Coimbatore Corporation said it was living through the fear of disruption in water supply under the Pilloor scheme during the World Classical Tamil Conference from June 23 to 27.
With a little more than a month to go for the conference, the district administration had already asked the water board to prevent line bursts and leaks that had plagued the Pilloor scheme.
“We do not want water supply disruption during the conference,” Mr. Karthik said.
